Combined churn and butter-worker.



L. A. DISBROWE COMBINED GHUHN AND BUTTER WORKER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23, 1909.

hajented 511115, 191.0.

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IIII H LEVE A. DISBRQVJ, 015 (HVA'QONNA, MINNESOTA.

CGMBINED Z-ZURN AND BUTTER-W'OEIIER.

Application filed December 23, N09.

To all whom it may (JOIMTCJWI lie it known that l, LEVI Ii. Di'snnow, a citizen of the United States, residingat- Gwatonna, in the county of Elteele and State of iijlinnesota, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Combined Churns and Butter-l 'i orkers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eiact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Y invention relates to combined churns and butter workers and has for its object to simplify the construction and to linplOVC the operation thereof.

To these ends, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

in the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views,

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a view, partly in plan and partly in horizontal section on the line m of 2; and Fig. 2 a transvers vertical section taken on the line 0: 50 of i 1.

The horizontally disposed drum 1 is provided with axially alined trunnions 2- and 3, journaled in suitable hearings on end brackets of a suppor ing franie The trunnion 2 is a long tubular trunnion provided, at its inner end, with a flange securely bolted to the adjacent head of the drum, and provided, at its outer end, with a pulley 5, over which a power-driven belt, not shown, may be run to rotate the drum in the direction of the arrow niarked thereon in 2.

Axially disposed within the drum 1 is a corrugated roller 6, the shaft (3 of which, at one end, projects through and is journaled in the tubular trunnion 2., and, atits extreme outer end, is provided with a pulley over which a power-driven belt, not shown, may be run to rotate the said roller in the direction of the arrow marked adjacent thereto in Fig. 2. The roller 6 should be driven in a direction opposite to the di rection of the rotation of the drum and at a relatively high rate of speed and, hence, the pulley is shown as of much smaller diameter than the pulley 5. So far as my present invention is concerned, however, the drum and the roller may be driven either by Specification of Letters Zatent.

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one-speed or by two-speed driving .niechanisin of any suitable constrinztion.

Located within the drum, extended .l ng'itudinaily oin end to end thereof and rigidly secured to the heads of the drain, are sharp edged so-called divider bars 8, which, as shown, are (lianiond-sha ied in cross section and are three in number. Said divider bars. in the direction of the rotation of the drum, are positioned suec ely farther and farther to the axis of the rrura, or in word farther and 1 her to tl e corrugated. woihing roller 3.

for lifting the butter in the butter-working action. on the rising side ot the drum and for delivering the same between the working roller (3 and the divider bars 8. a. lifting shelf or wide lifting at 5,) is e. tended from head to head of the drum and inward from tl e shell of the drum. This lifting shelf, in the direction the rot/as tion of the drum, is located considerably ahead of the first divider bar 8 and its inner edge is preferably farther from the roller 6 than is the inner edge of said first divider bar. At a point above the shelf 9, the drum is provided with a segmental door 10 which, of course, normally closed with a water-tight joint.

in the churning action, the OiEitI'll will be dashed about and thoroughly agitated by the combined action of the roller (3, the divider bars 8 and the shelf 9, and said shelf, under each rotation of the drum, will raise a large part of the cream and drop the same with a considerable force onto the said roller and divider bars, so that the machine operates as a highly ellicient churn. in the butterovorking action, the butter will be collected and raised in mass by the shelf 9 and will be delivered between and onto the roller 6 and the first divider bar 8. Under continued rotation of the drum, the butter, partly by its own gravity and partly by the crowding or feeding action of the corrugated roller, will be forced downward between the roller and the divider bars and will fall between the divider bars in long strips so that it will be thoroughly worked and, when salt is added, the salt will be i thoroughly connningled with the butter.

in Fig. 2 the dotted lines indicate the position of the drum in which the butter is being delivered from the shelf 9 to the wor ing roller 6 and divider bars. This delivering action, however, will begin considerably tially spaced in respect to said roller and before the drum is rotated as as is inlocated successively farther and farther 4. dicated by said dotted lines and will confrom said roller in the direction of the rotatinne for some time thereafter. The full tion of said drun, .nbstantially as de- 5 lines in Fig. 2 indica"e approximately the scribed. proper position in which to stop the drum l. In 1. machine of the hind described, the When the butter is to removed through combination with a horizontal rt tar; druin, 50

the opening normally closed by the door 10. oi a Working roller axially located Within By setting the dirider bars successively said drum, a multiplicity of divider bars 10 farther and farther fr 111 the Working roller, extending longitudinally Within said drain,

in the direction 0- ;atic-n of druin, circumferential]y spaced in respect to said f t the greatest spacei initial oller and lo its succe ively tartier and 5.5 passage of the butte butter farther apart in the direction or the rotation oiininishes in rolnnic. j l r en the drain, a lifting shell extending in- 1:3 roller and the divider I 1 asec, so Ward from the shell of said drum for raising that t \e roller will cont, r "vorl' the butter and for aelirering the same onto ing etiiciency. said roller and divider bars, and means so is is evident, the churn alt-ore described is lotating said drain and roller in reverse diot rery siinple construction and of coinrcctions, substantially described.

2o paratirely :inall. cost. Furthermore, it is In a machine of the hind described, the highly eilicient, both as chin-i, and a combination with horizontal rotary cruia butter Worker. having a hollow tr innion one end, a cor- 5.

Tihiat claim is: rngated Working lollcr ally located rithln a machine of the hind described, a in said drain and provided with av shaft rotary drain provided with an axial roller journaled in and extended outward through and a multiplicity of divider bar extended said hollow trunnion, a multiplicity of di- D longitudinally of id drum and circnintcrrider bars extended longitudinally Within 7 entially spaced in pect to roller, subsaid drum and Cll'CUllTfQl'CDilfillY spaced in stantially as described. respect to said Working roller, a lifting shelf 30 2. In a machine of he kind described, the extending inward from the shell of said combination with a horizontal rotary drinn, drum and from head to head thereof for of an axial rol er therein, a mu tipli ity oi raising the batter aid delivering the sane 7 divider bars extended longitudinally onto said worlrin roller and divider bars. in said drum and circninterentially and driving coin ctions to said driin and n l to the shaft of said roller for rotating the q :10 in res ect to said roller, and a lifting" Withiaic d n for same in reverse directions, substantially as saine onto r i described. 80 "stantially described. in testimony Wi reof i ahix iny signaline of the El id desoibed, the ture in presence or. wo wltief'ses.

' I a WSQpQrt/ it a horizontal re ary drain, .Qlh it or hit of a Working roller a -;ially located thereii lVitiesses: a multiplicity divider bars extended lon- A. UNIL at, gitndinally Within said drun, circumferei MARY lZRAUSI-l. 

